Feeding Kids
1 in 5 children in South Jersey struggles with hunger.
Hunger impacts a child’s ability to learn, to sleep well, and to grow and develop properly.
The Food Bank of South Jersey has many programs designed specifically to combat the child hunger problem.
Kids Café
An after school-hours snack program that offers healthy snacks to help meet the nutritional needs of children who may have little to no food to eat between their school lunch and school breakfast the next morning.
KidzPack
A supplemental meals program that provides pre-packed meals to children to take home every weekend, when they do not have access to free and reduced meals at school.
School Pantry
A pantry program through which nutritious food is delivered monthly to selected schools to support children and their families.
Summer Meals
A program that bridges the summer ‘meal gap’ by providing food to children throughout the summer months when school has ended, and the free and/or reduced-cost breakfasts and lunches are no longer available.
Every day, in every community, children go to bed hungry. According to the latest estimates, almost 63,000 children in the South Jersey region are food insecure. That means…
0
food-insecure children
in Burlington County
in Burlington County
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food-insecure children
in Gloucester County
in Gloucester County
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food-insecure children
in Camden County
in Camden County
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food-insecure children
in Salem County
in Salem County